Microsoft → [WIN7] ESPN site video player kaput after Windows update

When I clicked on the video, I first got an ad, as shown below

http://www.espn.com
 

I've not done anything except go to the page. I can see that I have the option to view a video, as indicated by the Play button (the black arrow pointing to the right inside the white square).

Yes, I know the page changes very often (as you said, multiple times a day, maybe even more). But, my question is, do you see what I see when you load the page? Yes, you may not see the same video I do, but do you see a video at all?

If you are not even seeing a place for a video on the main page, that could be a reason why they no longer work.

Mele20 had an issue with Flash video's not playing on CBS.com, and the issue was that there was some flash settings that she needed to modify that are only available when you right-click on a flash video on the web. You can read the whole discussion at this thread

»[Firefox] Flash video doesn't work on CBS?

At first some of us (myself included) though it had to do with the blocking of ad's or specific ad websites. I've seen cases where some webpages will not play video's if you do that. Their reason is that if you won't watch the ad, you don't see the video, period. Its dumb that they do that, but its a way for them to make money off the ad.

I don't agree with a lot of that, however I don't block all that stuff either. I also don't go modifying a lot of Flash settings either from their defaults. And, as can be seen here, I don't have problems. Not saying that people should not modify settings (that is why they can be modified to begin with), but sometimes, web page developers only code for a "default" configuration, and not only that, don't provide good error handling if something does not work as expected. Things just sort of hang, without telling the end user why.

--Brian